Urban areas, due to their high population density, intensive infrastructure,
and concentrated economic activities, are responsible for approximately
70% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and consume around 65%
of the world’s total energy. In this context, Renewable Energy
Communities (RECs) have emerged as an innovative and decentralized
solution capable of reducing the environmental impact of cities by
enabling local production, consumption, and sharing of clean energy.
Today, vineyard pruning still relies heavily on skilled human labor. To address this, an increasing number of research initiatives are exploring the transition from traditional manual practices to fully autonomous robotic systems. The VinPRO project contributes to this effort by developing an integrated robotic pruning platform composed of a custom-designed gripper for vineyard environments, an advanced computer vision system to detect branches, a control algorithm to optimize cutting actions, and a virtual reality (VR) tool to model vines and simulate pruning strategies. At its core is a Kinova Gen3 Lite robotic arm, mounted on a mobile rover that serves as the physical backbone of the system.